Asia Pacific Health News

A New Zealand husband who was HIV positive was sick and tired of not getting any sex from his wife. His wife only stayed with him for the sake of their two children. The wife and children did not contract...

Twenty-five Metropolitan Fire Brigade personnel, including a scientific officer, bought the spill under control just after 3pm. Ambulance crews were also on standby after a call out just before 1pm, but no medical assistance has yet been needed. MFB spokesman...

We need to make similar environmental changes to support people to make healthy decisions when it comes to food. However, unfortunately the current focus is solely on personal responsibility and choice. “To make a healthy choice you need to have...

A senior senator asked 33 nonprofit medical groups, including the American Medical Association and American Cancer Society, for information on the financial support they receive from corporations. Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican who for several years has probed the...

Cases of the pandemic A(H1N1) virus have spiked again in the northern hemisphere, says Professor Robert Booy. He says that sets the scene for a reinvigorated swine flu to soon begin circulating in Australia. Yet the Australian government's offer of...

The number of deaths related to the H1N1 flu epidemic has reached 100 in Japan as the Kyoto municipal government said Sunday a man in the city has died after infection.     The 74-year-old man had an underlying illness...

That the Association promotes the right of equal access for all New Zealanders to high quality public health services. Both access and quality are threatened by the medical workforce crisis in our district health boards. Critical to resolving this crisis...

It is believed the man wanted to give her the virus, which leads to Aids, so she would have sex with him again, the New Zealand Sunday Star-Times reported. According to the documents, the man twice pricked his wife with...

Researchers at Hokkaido University said Thursday they have found a combination of substances that is effective at combating swine flu. The group led by professor Tadaaki Miyazaki of the university's Research Center for Zoonosis Control found that a combination of...